Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I learnt about the Greeks and Romans , and about Christ , and about the first white men in America and the sad story of the Indians . |
| 2 | The island supports a lighthouse , unmanned since the 1930s , and one of the first automatic stations in the Trinity House Group . |
| 3 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 4 | From the time of the first Slav settlements in the seventh century until the Second World War Macedonia has always been a meeting place of contrasting cultures and a cockpit of rival political ambitions . |
| 5 | Her parents have done well ; her father became one of the first Afro-Caribbean councillors in inner London . |
| 6 | BSR was one of the first British firms in the market , the United States market that is , with its X-10 . |
| 7 | The degree to which ‘ internal ’ factors — as opposed to external pressures — lead to the emergence of a separate nationality obviously varies in emphasis between cases , and the first were possibly of greater significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the emergence of the first national groups in Europe . |
| 8 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 9 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 10 | But then Lawrence , too , one of the first university-trained novelists in the language , had not behaved otherwise . |
| 11 | The scene on the long side shows , I believe , the birth of Aphrodite from the sea , the figures on the wings her votaries , a veiled matron burning incense and a naked girl , a hetaira , piping ( one of the first naked women in large-scale Greek sculpture ) ; but many other views are held . |
| 12 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 13 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 14 | As a result , in the first free elections in the spring of 1917 to the zemstvo and municipal Belorussian governments , not a single nationalist representative won any popular support . |
| 15 | His ruling Nepali Congress party had come to power in May 1991 ( in the first free elections in 32 years — see p. 38193 ) promising to raise living standards , but now faced the prospect of defeat in local elections due in May and June . |
| 16 | This , together with their ability to organise clandestine activity and their promises of economic and social reform , helped the Communists to emerge as the strongest party in the first post-war elections in October 1945 , when they won 26 per cent of the vote . |
| 17 | Since the first direct elections in 1979 , it has gradually increased its powers to supervise the Commission and to amend budgetary and legislative proposals . |
| 18 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |